(i never understood why nobody seems to understand that it's tough talking trade with people in 12 different time zones, it can take days to even get 4 PMs across.
Nobody ever said it was easy. But I don't understand why everybody seems to think that you're supposed to, or entitled to, be able to complete every trade you begin discussions with. In the NBA trades don't materialize all the time. And at the deadline many deals are left on the table because negotiations don't finish before the deadline.
If this were strictly about time and the difficulty there is of communicating between SSBA'ers, the discussion would be over. YOU'RE ALREADY GAINING 2 DAYS BY MOVING IT BACK TO SIM 11. You've already gotten time to work out deals that haven't been able to be ironed out, for whatever reason. The fact of the matter is there will ALWAYS be a deadline, and there will ALWAYS be deals that will be "close" but not quite finished, and there will ALWAYS people who can be benefited by extending the deadline.
nor do i understand why constantly there's the allegation we're all just a bunch of kids hanging around and simply being too lazy to get something done in time
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Nope. nobody's said that. Like I said above, there will always be deals that are close to being done, but still need more time.
sometimes even something called a private life interferes with SSBA
All the more reason the commish should sim when the time is scheduled, not when it's convenient for the league. The commish has a regular life, too.
Nobody expected the league to "hold on until it assumes everyone got his business finished
Which is exactly the reason why extending the deadline is a bad idea. GM's who get to finish deals that originally weren't done on time get a huge benefit. The people who don't get the two people online to continue the negotiations, or the people who don't have any open negotiations get screwed. This is the question I asked earlier that I didn't get a response to. Why is it fair FOR THE LEAGUE if a
SINGLE GM OR COUPLE OF GM'S request an extension, because they're close to a trade, get the extension, and now I'm put at a competitive disadvantage because they obtained players whom they shouldn't have? We might as well just break rules for certain teams "because it would help them make trades".
that's the reason why some of us POLITELY asked for a brief extension of the deadline
I don't care if you asked politely, rudely, or by smoke signals. That doesn't change whether extending the deadline is right or wrong.
which of course was denied by another hardliner approach
It's a DEADLINE, which by definition is a hard line.
dead·line /ˈdɛdˌlaɪn/
–noun
1. the time by which something must be finished or submitted; the latest time for finishing something:
This is the latest time for wrapping up trade negotiations. Having a deadline doesn't mean it's easy to make a trade. But it does mean that is the time trades need to be finished by.
